Alan jumped to keep up with his brother's steps, and the brother and sister walked out of the wet fern meadow at the foot of the mountain, stepping on stones and jumping over two of the many tributaries of the Maranpaji River, like flying over the large rope bridge across the Malanpaji River, to the tidal flat in front of the flea nest.

"Hey, cheap slave from the mountain, I'm here!" A big man suddenly appeared from among the thorn bushes in the middle of the tidal flat, waving and shouting at them with his broken front teeth, and ran in a hurry.

Yu Fenghong saw who it was, frowned and said, "Why are you always hiding here, can't you stand in the middle of the road?" ”

The man smirked, "I'm afraid that if you see me standing in the middle of the road, you'll change the route." Hey, cheap slaves from the mountains, do you have anything for me? ”

This man was 10 feet 8 inches tall (note (1)) tall and weighed more than 280 pounds, and it was not easy to find his big man in the flea nest in Snow Blue City. No matter where he stands, it's too hard to want others to be non-existent.

As he spoke, the man put a pair of dirty hands into Yu Fenghong's rattan pocket and rummaged through them.

"Hey, you can't flip around, get your dirty hands away!" Yu Fenghong was startled, and hurriedly put down the rattan pocket to dodge the attack.

The man retracted his hand, wiped his hands on the same dirty clothes that were too dirty to see the color, and laughed.

"Arrow, can you wash your hands next time?" Yu Fenghong bent down and took out a large bag of round-headed ru and fresh young elm leaves from his vine pocket and gave it to him, clapping his hands by the way, as if he was afraid of getting the other party's dirty dust.

Arrow smiled: "Okay, okay, I'll remember the next time I come to pick you up, I must remember!" ”

Yu Fenghong smiled bitterly: "It's better not to pick it up." ”

"How can I be?" Arrow was busy looking down at the gift, and casually reached out to pat Yu Fenghong: "You are my good friend." ”

His shot missed, and Yu Fenghong had already stood away from him unconsciously.

Arrow didn't take it seriously, picked out two pieces from the tender elm leaf bag and put them in his mouth to chew, spit out a mouthful of juice, and licked his lips: "This time it's tender, I'll keep half of it to make elm leaf cakes, and the other half will go to Chasi Street to change the salt mud, there is no salt mud at home, so I look forward to you giving something to change." ”

Ah Lan next to him suddenly screamed and jumped up: "Alas! ”

I saw a human-faced monster emerge from the dwarf thorn bush next to Ah Lan, and he was reaching out to steal the flaming red phoenix feather sandalwood on Ah Lan's head.

Ah Lan dodged: "This can't be given to you!" ”

The human-faced monster somehow went around the thorn bush and rolled down in front of everyone, looking like a round ball of human flesh, but in fact it was a Dan-eared man with a head and a face but no legs and no feet.

Ah Die's face is not clear except for the two eyes that are spinning, green and a little scary, and the other facial features are covered by the unkempt dirty hair, and the hair color is the same as his brother's, and it is even more indistinguishable like a bird's nest.

Anyway, everyone in the flea nest looks like this, and no one is much better.

Ah Die straightened up halfway, brushed the hair on his forehead, and asked strangely, "Why can't you give it to me?" Aren't we good friends? ”

Ah Rui looked at Yu Fenghong's face, and hurriedly said, "Ah Die, we have to agree with others on this, don't we?" ”

The human-faced monster named Ah Die asked bluntly: "When do we have to get other people's consent to take things?" ”

Yu Fenghong said unhappily: "This is my father's birthday gift to my sister, if you like it, I'll make one for you another day." ”

Saying this, Ah Die was even more unhappy, and stared at Ah Lan with vicious eyes: "You have a father, how are you." I don't have a father, I don't have a mother, my only aunt is long dead, and I have a bad aunt who never came to us at all. This little step, I have to do it! ”

said that it was too late and that was fast, without waiting for everyone to reflect, Ah Die was like a poisonous snake spitting out a letter, jumping up extremely quickly, and quickly reaching out to grab the step on Ah Lan's head.

"Hey, what are you doing!" Ah Lan flashed to the side, and when he found that Ah Die came to grab it again, he rolled on the spot, reached out and took off the wooden shake from his head, and protected it tightly on his chest.

Seeing that his sister was being bullied, Yu Fenghong jumped over Ah Rui, who was blocked in front of him like a mountain, and blocked Ah Lan behind him: "You rob my sister again, I will later-" He was so angry that his face turned blue, he thought about it, and said resolutely: "I will ignore you no more." ”

Arrow stared wide-eyed at the three of them dodging and grabbing, and seeing that his sister was not the opponent of Yu Fenghong's brother and sister, he put the round head Ru and tender elm leaves in his hand on the ground, thought about it, grabbed them and put them farther away, and then jumped over.

"Hey, are you going to fight? Didn't you say we were good friends? How can you bully my sister?! ”

Yu Fenghong smiled bitterly: "Can you figure it out?" It was your sister who bullied my sister. ”

Arrow blinked, looked at Die who was staring at him like a defeated rooster, and said a little embarrassedly: "Then she can't beat you?" Of course I had to help. ”

This pair of brothers and sisters is also weird, they don't care if they are justified or not, they have to fight if they can fight, and they have to rob if they can't rob them, and they don't care who the other party is.

"Then one-on-one, my brother beats your brother, I will do you!" Ah Die showed greedy eyes and stared at the small step in Ah Lan's hand.

Yu Fenghong knew that Ah Die was cunning and insidious, no matter how she could beat her, she would try her best to grab her sister's Xiaobu Yao, he would not fall for her, he protected his sister and moved towards the rattan pocket, put the rattan pocket on his back, and wanted to slip away.

"Hey, you haven't hit yet, you can't run!" Arrow stood in their way like a wall.

Ah Die slid like a snake, and while Ah Rui and Yu Fenghong were entangled, he bullied Ah Lan's side and wrapped around Ah Lan's feet.

Ah Lan jumped to dodge Ah Die's entanglement. But she is the opponent of Ah Die, a flea nest habitual thief. Ah Die put his hands on her, and stole her all over in a few moments, except for the small step she held in her hand, everything including the blue cloth burden went to Ah Die's hands.

Ah Die jumped off Ah Lan's body, and at this time, Ah Lan's body was full of stains and filth left by Ah Die's dirty hands. She stared at Ah Lan like a thief, and opened the blue cloth bag.

Among the baggage were the gifts that Malan Zhangxiu had given to Ah Lan a few days ago, including a pair of rosewood combs from Jing Nanguo to Princess Maran, a rosewood comb inlaid with purple rubies worth 100 gold shields, and a red Shu embroidered crane tunic worth 5 gold dongles.

Yu Fenghong, who was stopped by Ah Rui, was anxious and yelled: "Don't you want those things, they belong to Ma Lan, and my sister is going to take them and return them." ”

Ah Die's eyes lit up, unfolded the red Shu embroidered crane coat and tried it on herself, and the place where her palm touched it would pull up a slight sound, this was the first time in her life that she had such a delicate and luxurious dress, and since it was in her hand, she would never let go again.

"Maran's? What will you do to him in return? It's better to forget it for me. I'm good at it. ”

Ah Die put the rosewood comb on her unkempt black hair, draped the red embroidered coat on her body, like a peacock showing the beautiful feathers behind her buttocks, and proudly spun and asked her brother: "How is it, am I like the princess of Snow Blue City?" ”

Alan muttered, "You always rob me of things." I do not like you. ”

Yu Fenghong glanced at Ah Die, who looked like a half-human and half-beast, snatched something and was still complacent, and took his sister's hand: "Let's go, we won't take this road in the future." ”

Hearing this, Ah Die yelled at him, "What are you? The one I look down on the most in my flea nest is you, who is obviously a cheap slave, but you have to pretend to be a nobleman. Even if you wear black boots, you are still a cheap slave in Snow Blue City, the son of a traitor of the Yufeng Clan! ”

Yu Fenghong was stunned and stood for a moment, his chest undulating.

Ah Lan turned his head sideways and saw Yu Fenghong's face pale, and gently touched his arm: "She is also a cheap slave." ”

Yu Fenghong nodded and took a breath: "She is also a cheap slave." ”

The siblings walked side by side through the damp, shady alleys of the winding flea nest.

Ah Rui walked over and looked at Ah Die, who was full of joy for snatching Ah Lan's things, and was a little overwhelmed: "He seems to be unhappy." ”

Ah Die ate and laughed: "So what? ”

Arrow felt a sense of loss inexplicably: "But he's my only friend." ”

Ah Die put away the red Shu embroidered crane shirt and hid the rosewood comb inlaid with purple rubies: "I have never seen these things, they are estimated to be very expensive, I will take them to Chasi Street to find someone to exchange for silverquill, enough for us to eat this winter." Besides, what do you want your friends to do? ”

yes, as a slave in a flea nest, what does he want his friends to do? Arrow pondered the question for a moment, then focused on the main point of his sister's words: "Enough for us to eat for a winter?" ”

The two brothers and sisters of Yu Fenghong went to the lame witch first and gave him the grass, and the lame witch handed over another handful of unknown herbs to Yu Fenghong by the way, and asked him to bring it to the salt mud granny on Chasi Street.

Slip through the flea nest, walk across the wooden bridge of the moat, and come to the mud door.

The mud gate is the most dilapidated of the five city gates of Snow Blue City, originally called Tingshan Gate, because facing the tattered mud path in front of the flea nest, most of the people who enter and exit are civilians and cheap slaves, and over time, everyone is directly called the mud gate.

The gates were open, and the brother and sister followed each other into the gates.

Yu Fenghong is very familiar with Snow Blue City, and he always takes the fastest alley. After a while, they arrived at Chawu Street, Yu Fenghong put down the rattan pocket, and handed the prepared yellow cloud grass to Uncle Xima, which can replace sulfur and ochre to disinfect cattle and horses and kill insects.

Uncle Xima asked Yu Fenghong to bring a small package to the salt mud mother-in-law on Chasi Street by the way, and gave Yu Fenghong a silver quill as the price to buy Huangyun grass.

Yu Fenghong looked at the silver quill and smiled sweetly at Ah Lan, with this silver quill, Ah Lan can buy a piece of his favorite Ma Ge clothes, well, although it is not silk, nor satin, in short, it is new.

Ah Lan also happily quietly extended his thumb to Yu Fenghong. In her heart, her brother Hong is the most capable and can think of any way.

The brother and sister walked past a woman squatting on the edge of an alley and pooping, dodged two slaves who shouted and scolded while frantically grabbing each other's hair, ran past a group of children throwing stones at each other, and came to the door of the Yanni Mother-in-law on Chasi Street.

"Bad boy, don't hide in yet! Last night, many Tianwei troops wearing silver armor and shiny lion heads on their chests came, and the bright yellow cloak almost blocked the moonlight in the sky of Snow Blue City. I've heard that they're going to arrest all the boys in Snow Blue City! ”

Before he could gain a firm foothold, Yu Fenghong was grabbed into the dark room by a pair of scrawny hands like eagle claws, accompanied by a stinking scolding that cut his head and covered his face.

"Mother-in-law, really?" Yu Fenghong asked with a bitter face.

(Note (1) Rongzhou measurement standard: cloth refers to the inch, cloth hand knows the ruler, one palm is five inches, two palms are one foot, and one foot is 16.95 centimeters.) Ten feet eight inches is about 183 centimeters today. The weight is measured as 16 taels = one catty)